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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
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"There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself."

"Give with love, give with smile, give freely, it is our duty and responsibility to humanity."

"I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them."

"Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love."
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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."

"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."

"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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